If someone with maps expertise can confirm it, but pics 15-18 look VERY familiar to me because I vacationed there with my family back in 2008. It looks like that helicopter is flying over the town of Punaluu or Kaawa. I also did a search and the only heliport in the area is at Kualoa Ranch OR they could be flying to the Marine Base in Kaneohe.

SO not sure how an order all fits in?

rappelhelicopter to ??marine base?? or Kualoa?

jet skis to/ or near Kualoa??RB?MAT?

need some more help here

I am 99.9% certain that one picture of the helicopter passing a beach in the episode 1 preview, cap 18, is actually on the NORTH shore, in the Kawela Bay area, at Pahipahialua Beach. The road pictured is still Kamehameha Hwy, which goes by both of our beaches, but it's 20 miles north of Kualoa Ranch. That's the opposite direction of the Marine Corps Air Station at Kaneohe Bay.

I can't upload an image right now, but on Google maps I found what I am pretty certain is the striped-roofed building in the upper right corner of the picture.

If someone with maps expertise can confirm it, but pics 15-18 look VERY familiar to me because I vacationed there with my family back in 2008. It looks like that helicopter is flying over the town of Punaluu or Kaawa. I also did a search and the only heliport in the area is at Kualoa Ranch OR they could be flying to the Marine Base in Kaneohe.

SO not sure how an order all fits in?

rappelhelicopter to ??marine base?? or Kualoa?

jet skis to/ or near Kualoa??RB?MAT?

need some more help here

I am 99.9% certain that one picture of the helicopter passing a beach in the episode 1 preview, cap 18, is actually on the NORTH shore, in the Kawela Bay area, at Pahipahialua Beach. The road pictured is still Kamehameha Hwy, which goes by both of our beaches, but it's 20 miles north of Kualoa Ranch. That's the opposite direction of the Marine Corps Air Station at Kaneohe Bay.

I can't upload an image right now, but on Google maps I found what I am pretty certain is the striped-roofed building in the upper right corner of the picture.

I listened with the volume all the way up and headphones on , and you're right , I can hear it too and it does sound like Rachel from D/R.

Yes I can hear it too, the first breath was after "You are the first team to arrive" then the next breathe was sometime in the middle/end of "however, you have not completed the roadblock, right before Misa and Maiya's shot. And the eyes of Phil as he explains about getting back for the RB is like for a tall Dave then back to Rachel.

The Ralph & Vanessa shot looks like it is from the Japanese game show place. Ralph was wearing orange and can be seen on the left in the preview and Vanessa had that pink stained skirt thing on during the gameshow RB.

what i think happens is that they get sent to a nearby beach "to receive their next clue" but they go to the wrong beach and end up at the finish line having already done one roadblock.

as far as detours are concerned (i dont think any of the route infos apply this year), but last year, even though the tin tin task and the speedo task were depicted as route infos, they were actually a double sided detour. everyone took the speedo detour and ultimately completed, but they had a contract with the tin tin movie so they threw it together as a route info for the beginning of the following leg just to fill their contractual obligations.

In the new promo, around the 10-11 second mark, the shore line behind the jet ski is visible. It looks more like the north shore to me, maybe with Waimea Bay on the left?

I was looking to see where the helicopters could land up there on the north shore, and I see that Turtle Bay has a place for helicopters to land. Turtle Bay is just a bit beyond the place showing the north shore beach heli cap, in the direction that helicopter was headed.